Writing file data in Python - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to open a file named 'output.txt' for writing.

Python

file = open('output.txt', '[1]')

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Aw

Bx

Ca

Dr

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'r' mode which is for reading only.

Using 'a' which appends instead of overwriting.

Use 'w' mode to open a file for writing. It creates the file if it doesn't exist and overwrites if it does.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to write the string 'Hello, world!' to the file.

Python

file.write('[1]')

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AHello world!

BHello, world!

Chello, world!

DHello world

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Missing the comma or exclamation mark.

Using lowercase 'hello' instead of capital 'Hello'.

The string must exactly match 'Hello, world!' including punctuation and capitalization.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to properly close the file after writing.

Python

file.[1]()

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Aclosing

Bclosed

Cclose

Dclose_file

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'closed' which is an attribute, not a method.

Using 'closing' or 'close_file' which are invalid.

The method to close a file is close().

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to write 'Python' followed by a newline to the file.

Python

file.write('[1]'[2]'\n')

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APython

BPython\n

C+

D,

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using ',' which does not concatenate strings.

Putting the newline inside the first blank without concatenation.

Use string concatenation with '+' to add a newline character '\n' after 'Python'.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to write each word in the list to the file on separate lines.

Python

words = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']
for [1] in words:
    file.write([2] + [3])

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Aword

C'\n'

Dwords

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'words' as the loop variable which is the list itself.

Forgetting to add the newline character.

Use 'word' as the loop variable and write each word plus a newline '\n' to the file.